Eric joins me today and our main focus is on the subject of paradigmatic rigor and the tricky balance of holding objective standards while meeting people where they are subjectively. I didn’t say this in the podcast, but there’s a contextual headline I’ll offer here: there’s a common content and context confusion problem in so many domains in our world. We’re often looking for new answers instead of properly using what we have in front of us and just willing to be uncomfortable.
With few exceptions, every great teaching in the history of consciousness has been diluted and distorted for mass consciousness so deeply that it ends up doing literally the opposite of the original intention. This is how experience-based spirituality turns into religion, how democracies devolve into autocracies, how school ruins people’s appetite and discipline for learning, and on and on. This dynamic is the fabric of the strategic world. If you don’t every day see the cake-and-eat-it-too dynamic ruining things that would otherwise work, then in my humble opinion your eyes are not yet open and you’re still in green subjectivism. I don’t enjoy holding this flag, but it’s something I just cannot put down right now.
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